Hairpin



W. J. MLLER.

HAIRPIN.

APPmcATloN FILED JAN. 13. 192|.

1 ,410,948, Patented Mar. 2, 1922.

1 v.vi/'AsHINe'roN I. MILLER, or OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA@ IIAIRPIN.

Application filed January 13, 1921.

To all whom t may concern.' Be it known that I, VASHINGTON J. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oakland, county of Alameda, State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hairpins, of which the following is a specification.

Irly invention has for its object a hairpin formed from a piece of wire bent in such a way as to be easily placed in or removed froii'i the hair and when placed, to retain its position without falling out. .C )ther objects will appear from the drawings and description which follows: a i

Fig. vl is a front view of my hairpin in its simplest form. f

Fig. 2 is a side View of Fig. l.

F ig. 3 is a front View similar to Fig. l, but in which the adjacent members have been iuted oppositely to more eii'ectually retain the hairpin in its position in the hair by the encircling and gripping action of the two Vside members on a-wisp of hair, and to prevent said members from overlapping due to spring action.

ig. 4 is an enlarged side view of Fig. 3 to more clearly show the arrangement of the Hates in the two adjacent members Fig. 5 is a cross section on the lline VLv VI of Fig. 4. l

Fig. 6 is a side view of my hairpin with parallel Huted members in which the plane of the flutes is at right anglesto the plane of the top and ends.

Fig. 7 is a front view of the hairpin of Fig. 6.

Throughout the figures similar numerals i'efer to identical parts. The loop at the'l top of the haii-pin when the wire has been` bent as shown in Fig. l is indicated by the numeral l, and the ends at 2 and 3. The adjacent members are shown at 4, 5, and where the said members are fiuted as shownV at 6 and 7. An alternate arrangement of luting is shownat 1l, 12 of Figs. 6, 7.

It will be noted that the upper portion of the ends 2 and 3 converge slightly to facilitate the entering of the pin over a wisp of hair which thereafter slides between the adjacent members 4 and 5` and a portion thereof finds its way into the loop 1 and the remaining part is `pinched or clamped'between the said members. l 7 the adjacent members 6 and 7 yare luted and the flutes are arranged in two parallel planes adjacent to each other and at right l Specification of Letters Patent.

loop and ends. In Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6,

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angles to the plane of the top of loop l, and ends 2, 3. It will thus be seen that when the hairpin is slipped into the hair, a of hair engaged between the ends 2 s lides between the adjacent members an enclosed and clamped relation therein by the flutes and the spring action of the members 6 and 7, which bound the said areas. The separated ends 2, 3 in the sainey plane as the loop l retain the pin in'its flat position against the hair so that the hairpin will not turn on edge. The luting of the two adjacent members is such as to prevent the said members from overlapping', and in addition t-lie said liutings provide circular areas within which the hair which have entered between the adjacent members 6 and 7.

Fatented Mar. 28, 1.922.

is enclosed and held segregated portions ofV The lower portion of the loop lin all the Y forms converge toward the adjacent members formingan entering slope to facilitate the removal of theV pin from the hair.

claim:

` l. As an article of manufacture7 a hairpin i having a loop at one end, land two side members extending below said loop yand adjacent each other and thence diverging from each other and thence substantially parallel to their ends and wherein the sides over their adjacent portions are luted'in planes at right angles to said loop.

2. As pin having a loop members extending below said loop and adjacenteach other and thence diverging from each other and thence substantially parallel to their ends and wherein the sides over their adjacent portions are fiuted in `planes at right angles to said loop alternately right and left and left and right, respectively.

3. An article of manufacture, a hairpin having a loop at one end and sides extending belowy said loop adjacent each other, thence diverging from each other and stantially parallel to their ends and wherein the sides areoppositely siiiuous over their adjacent portions, the plane of siiiuousity being at right angles to the plane 'of the an articleof manufacture, a haii'` at'one end, and two side thence subj 4. As an article of'manufacture, a hairpin having a loop at one end, and two side inembers extending below said loop and contacting with each other and thence diverging parllel'to their` ends anclwherein and thence Substantially the4 sides 'fi-'0in each other over their contaetingportions are planes at right angles to said loop. y 5. As an article of manufacture, a

having a loop at 'one end, and two side Y members extending below said loop and oonfluted in hairpinv taeting with each other and thence diverging from each other rnd thence substantially parllel to theirends and wherein the sides 10 yover their contacting portions are fluted in pllnes at right angles to said loop.

y' WASHINGTON J. MILLER," 

